Ars Magna et Ultima

Meaning "The Great and Ultimate Art." Better known as Ars Generalis Ultima or Ars Magna. A work by Raymond Lully, published in 1274–1308. It provided a system of arguments to aid in converting people of other faiths to Christianity. ["Ramon Llull," Wikipedia]

Joseph Curwen had a copy of Raymond Lully's Ars Magna et Ultima in Zetsner's edition [HPL Case (online text)]. "Zetsner's edition" was a one-volume Latin edition of several of Lully's works, published by Lazarus Zetzner in Strasbourg, 1598. The Zetsner edition includes related works by Giordano Bruno and Cornelius Agrippa, authors whose speculative or occult tendencies may have been of interest to Curwen. The John Hay Library at Brown University has a copy, which is cataloged under the abbreviated title Raymundii Lullii Opera ea quae ad adinuentam ab ipso artem vniuersalem ... pertinent : vt et in eandem quorundam interpretus scripti commentarij: quae omnia ... edita sunt : accessit index ... locupletissimus. (Thanks to John Merritt for sending me details about the Zetzner edition.)

Ambrose Dewart found a copy in Billington House [AWD Lurker].

Dan Harrop found a copy in the collection of his late cousin, Abel Harrop [AWD Whippoorwills].

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